Phonograph-disk-record holder and ejector.



G.E.ADAMS PHONOGRAPH DISK RECORD HOLDER AND EJECTOR. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 19. 19H- 2 SHEETS-SHEET I.

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PHONOGRAPH DISK RECORD HOLDER AND EJECTOR.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.19.I912.

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gvwemtoz G'EQEGE E. ADAMS, 0F SALTLA KE CITY, UTAH, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-THIRD T0 Dlltlil'IEli r anr tri ALEXANDER AND ONE-THIRD T0 HAMMOND O. WILLIAMS, BOTH 0F SALT LAKE crrY, urns.

PHONOGRAPH-DISK-BEGORD HOLDER Ann EJECTOR.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

application filed March 19, 1917. Serial No. 155,896.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. ADAMs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Salt Lake City, in the county of Salt Lake and State ofUtah, have invented certain new. andv useful Improvements in Phonograph- Disk- Recordl-lolders and Ejectors; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such, as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Thisinvention relates to improvements in cabinets for phonographic disk records, such as used on graphophone and gramophone machines, of a type adapted to contain the disk records in individual selective arrangement, whereby, upon the actuation of a complementary selective key, any desired record in the cabinetmay be automatically projected or ejected independently of the remaining disk records therein.

This has heretofore been accomplished with partial success-by cabinets having a se ries of vertically disposed compartments, for the reception individually of the disk records, associated with actuating mechanism, comprising selective push bars, cooperating with spring controlled ejector levers pivoted thereto, but such an arrangement has not proven entirely satisfactory formany and varied reasons, which will more fully hereinafter appear in comparison with my present improvements.

In a preliminary way, however, I might state briefly that the arrangement of the disk records perpendicularly, provides only for amini-mum number of records that the cabinet might contain, as it restricts 'the numher to the exact width of the cabinet, leaving much waste space between them and the bottom of the talking machine proper, which space is generally covered by an ornamental front panel. V

"Also, the spring controlled actuating mechanism, with its severalparts and 'connections,

ing the which is of considerable annoyance and em pense.

to utilize the maximum disk record con taining space of the lower compartment of the phonograph cabinet of whatever make or type, and in conjunction with this horithe compartments, 1

zontal disposition of have devised the simplestlorm of actuating mechanism, which eliminates-all unnecessary pivotal connections, springs and multiplicity of parts, liable to, become displaced, wedged, broken or otherwise disabled.

At the same time, While my construction and arrangement is so simple as to be comparatively cheap to manufacture and assemble, it is in fact much more durable and positive and effective in action than the more complicated arrangements of the prior art.

Other objects and advantages will appear from the following description, and the es sential features of novelty will be pointed out more particularly in the appended claims. 1

To more clearly understand the invention, reference will now be made to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this ap plication, in which drawings like reference characters designate the same parts in the several. views, of which- Figure 1, is a perspective view of a graph ophone cabinet with my improved disk record holder and ejector shown as fully fillbottom compartment thereof, and with the disk records omitted.

Fig. 2, a sectional plan View, taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 3, above one'of the disk compartments, and showin a disk record, its ejector arm and push er, in full lines, in their normal positlons, as when the record is not called for, and in dotted lines illustrating the positions assumed when theactuating mechanism has been operated to eject a selected record, and v Fig. 3, isa fragmentary view looking toward the front of the cabinet as shown in Fig. 2, the upper portion'being shown in ele- Patented June 25, 1918..

One object of the present invention, therefore, is to overcome these objectionable feaat r up' as a vation, and the lower portion in vertical section.

It may be stated at the outset that, the record containing cabinets may be built up as completely incased sectional units, of desired dimensions, for stacking up after the fashion ofsectional book cases, where a great number of records are kept, such as in music stores, talking machine establishments, and even in private homes.

, Or as such-an incased unit it may be bodily inserted in a corresponding sized phonograph cabinet base compartment, although in the latter case, it would probably be built art of the phonogra h cabinet itself, in t at the bottom, side an rear walls of the phonograph cabinet would serve as the inclosing caslng for my record holding cabinet.

However, in-thi's application, the invention being the same in all cases, I shall describe myimprovements as a unit complete in itself, rather than as a built in part of any particular type of phonograph cabinet base. a

The record holding cabinet may be of any suitable structure, but for the purpose of lightness, combined with strength and durability, it is preferably of open box-work construction, having a base and top, fiat front and rear ieces 5, side and rear inclosing v walls 6 an 7, and spaced reinforcing struts or pieces 8, the forward portion of which extend u wardly in the nature of vertical supporting walls 9, for supporting certain rack elements or shelves, and 10 are vertical narrow front walls, between the supporting walls 9 and casing side walls 6, the front of the cabinet being virtually open, all of which will hereinafter more fully appear. Of course, when built up into a special phonograph cabinet base, the numerals 6 and 7 would designate the side and rear walls of the phonograph cabinet itself, and 5 the bottom of-the base cempart-ment.

11 designates a transversely disposed narrow front shelf, and 12 a rearwardly extending branch thereof, the two forming one of a series of open T-sha'pcd racks, arranged in parallel horlzontal rows to provide for a substantially indefinite series of horizontal compartments, restricted in number onl by the eight of the lower compartment 0 the phonograph cabinet, which compartments are of a proper vertical depth to receive in slidable relation a disk record, or a disk record and its sales envelop, infiatwise position,

v or preferably still adisk record in a dust secured in the supporting walls 9 and the ends of the rear extensions 12 are fitted in the rear inclosing wall 7, as indicated at 13 inFig. 2.

These rack elements 11--12 or the forward shelf portion 11 may be covered with felt, velour or similar hmng, if desired, to present a more finished appearance and to prevent scratching or abrasion of the records,-but where a dust proof soft casin is employed, as abovesuggested, this woul be entirely unnecessary and-an additional ex-' pense only.

The inner edge ortions of the narrow front walls 10'areeveled, as indicated at 14:, and on one of these beveled faces are arranged a series of indicia, numerals being shown, each of which. indicates one compartment of the cabinet. It is obvious that these indicia might be arranged on the other beveled face also, should it be found desirable to arrance a series of push bars on the opposite side of the cabinet as well, alternating with the actuating mechanism shown on the left hand side,.only', in the drawings.

' One of the primary characteristics of thetc invention is the simplicit and positive action of the actuating mec amsm, as hereinbefore stated, which will now be specifically described.

Within the vertical space inside the inat closing wall 6, shown at the left' hand side in the drawings, are arranged a filurality of rearwardly projecting horizonta push bars, rods or slides 15, the rear ends of which'a-re slidingly mounted in guide open- 1 0 ings 16, and the forward ends of which have a cylindrical neck or in extension 17 integral or otherwise, earing through the aperture 18 in the narrow front wall 10. The ends of these pins are a head or push button 19, which carries indicia corresponding to'that on the beveled face 14 adjacent thereto.

To the rear ends of these push bars 15 are pivoted, in any, suitable way, such as by a mortised joint as indicated at 20, the outer ends of horizontally disposed ejector arms 21, the free inner ends of which latter are mounted to slidin ly,ride in the disk record compartments of t e cabinet, behind the disk records, engaging the disk records peripherally in their own plane, and exciting a leverage force in that same 'plane in ejecting the disk recorls 22 flatwise. This has a substantial degree of im ortance, for that in ejecting the disk recor s fiatwise they cannot be pro ected completely out of the cabinet,

which may be the case where vertical compartments are employed and the disks are rolled out peripherally, resultin falling'to the floor and being bro en.

A common vertical pivot rod could be employed, passing through all of these ejector y disposed provided with 106 in their )r furnishing a proper fulcrum to provide average for the same, but my, one chief aim in this connection issimplicity in construction, arrangement and assembly, in the ,avoidance of unnecessary Working parts, and I prefer to make the push rods and ejector arms slidable bodily together, in so far as any other binding connections may be concerned. crum, therefore, I simply mount a vertical rod behind the ejector arms, as shown for illustration, a vertical strip or bead 23 fixed to the rear Wall 7, which will provide a disconnected common fulcrum for all ofv the ejector arms 21. p

From the foregoing complete statement, it is believed that the operation of the improved construction will be fairly apparent, but may be stated as follows:

With the parts shown in the position indicated in full lines in Fig. 2, in pushing in engaging at its rear edge against-the common fulcrum 23 Wlll throw its free inner end outwardly with a gentle uniform movement, and the edge of this free inner end engaging its disk record 22 peripherally, in

its own plane, will slide the record forl; wardly of its compartment to project therebeyond a sufiicient distance to be readily 5} extracted for use all as shown in dotted lines. Thus while my actuating mechanism in the action is positive yet gentle and without any jerky thrusts, which are liable to roll a vertically disposed record out on the floor.

In prior constructions, with spring controlled actuating mechanisms, when the record has been projected the spring control returns all of the parts to their normal positions. In my arrangement, when'th'e record has been. extracted, the, actuating mech- 'anism remains dormant, with the push butta'ton still in, serving in that position to 1ndicalo where the record has been taken from and 1s tube replaced, without having to Search for the slot opening that is minus a record.

place the actuating parts are returnd to their normal position, and the push button. thrtustout again, Thus there is nothm to bind, or get -displaced, or break or ot er-- wise get out of order. I

l have herein only stated some of the n order to provide a proper ful-.

on the top button 19, for instance, its push bar 15 is moved rearwardly, carrying with. it the outer end of its ejector arm 21, whleh Whcn the record has been played, and it I many advantages that my improved cabinet possesses over those in the art as known to me, and I will not attempt in this specification to enumerate all, but will emphasize finally that, outside of the simplicity of the actuating mechanism and the comb ned arrangement and functioning of the elements generally, the horizontally-disposed coin- .partments enable me to store the maximum amount of records of all makes, regardless of their thickness or diameter, which vary within wide limits as is well known.

They also enable inc to retain records in their original packages, envelops or in dust proof sacks or covers, for the horizontal compartments provide for the fiatwise slid ing projection of the record when ejected, and there is no interference with this planetary movement, which would not be the case in cabinets having vertical compartments, as the envelop or bag containers would prevent the rolling of the records out of their compartments.

Furthermore in these vertically arranged compartments, the construction is necessarilyso frail and thin to secure anything like the necessary space to store a substantial number of records, and the ejector mechanism necessarily so correspondingly delicate that, outside of the parts breaking or otherwise becoming defective, the ejector arms themselves oftentimes bind, and it is impossible to eject the records at all, all of which is avoided by the, horizontal arrangement and more substantial construction.

Having thus fully disclosed my invention it will be'undcrstood that I do not limit myself to the exact details set forth, excepting as come within the purview of the ensuing claims and a reasonable construction of the scope thereof contemplating a fair range of equivalents.

What I do claim as new and patentable, 1s:-

. 1.-In a disk record cabinet, substantially as set forth, the combination of a casing including a horizontal series of flat T-shaped rack elements mounted to provide acorrespending series of horizontally disposed compartments, each adapted to receive an individual disk record in'fiatwise sliding position; an ejector clement slidingly mounted in each compartment at the rear thereof to engage an inserted record; and selective mcansoperatively engaging the individual ejector elements for moving any of said ejec tor elements forwardly at will to project a desired record, substantially as described.

2. In a disk record cabinet, substantially as set forth, the combination of a casing providing a series of horizontally disposed compartments, each adapted to receive an individual diskrecord in fiatwise sliding position; an ejector arm for each compartment,

having a free inner end slidingly mounted thereof for swinging the inner end of any therein at the rear thereof, to peripherally of said ejector arms forwardly at Will to proengage an inserted disk rec-r in own ject a desired record; and a fulcrum element 1c plane, and at its outer end ejecting todisconnected from but common to all of said- 5 ward one side of said casing; an individual ejector arms, substantially as described.

selective push bar for each of said ejector In testimony whereof, I ailix my signature. arms, operatively engaging the outer ends GEORGE E. ADAMS. 

